The Europeans are proving that house is not only not going away, but it is bigger than ever. Not far apart from David Guetta’s One Love album, Fedde le Grand manages to throw his own Urban/American flavour into the genre with Output.

There is something so very flexible about Fedde’s classic anthem Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit. It doesn’t matter where you are, where you’re going or what club you’re in, everyone always seems to throw in their own vocals and sing with invigorating passion, as though the song was written for every local there. And besides its flexibility, like it or not, this track is a classic, as any ‘#1 summer anthem of Ibiza’ would be. But there is more to Fedde le Grand than just one hit. This Dutch house DJ has compilations, remixes, festivals and entrepreneurial skills coming out of his pores.

I had anticipated that this album would be solely club and not at all experimental, but I am pleased to say I was wrong. The intro Wild & Raw feat. The Stereo MC’s had an interesting funk/blues vibe to it that had me reminiscing on my Bootsie Collins days. will.i.am is also busy bouncing between albums and is nice enough to show up again early in this album for the very relaxed Feel Alive.

MC, producer, pianist and songwriter Mitch Crown (who, in my opinion, should have kept his original surname Kroon) has been working himself into the forefront of the music scene. What better way to get noticed than to feature on a house compilation album not once, but three times? Scared Of Me, Let Me Be Real and Rockin High are all tracks that direct the album into that relatively new house sound of soft drum beats and gently echoed vocals. Crown/Kroon also manages to take me a back a few years when Craig David was producing much the same sound in the pop world.

Tracks like My Faya feat. Andy Sherman kept tempting me to skip, but then the very soothing humming managed to win out the overly repetitive everything else.

Keeping up with the times, his latest single Let Me Be Real is available on his website feddelegrand.com and if you’re having a browse, you might come across the very “oh no you didn’t” moment in the bio that I just have to share… “Fedde Le Grand might just be looking for a name change; perhaps Fedde Le Tres Grand is on the horizon?”. Yep… they went there.

Check out the tracklist:

1. Wild & Raw feat. The Stereo MC s
2. Feel Alive feat. Will.i.am
3. Scared of Me feat. Mitch Crown
4. Hard Days Work feat. Ida Corr
5. Shotgun feat. Camille Jones
6. Back n Forth feat. Mr. V
7. Let Me Be Real feat. Mitch Crown
8. My Faya feat. Andy Sherman
9. 3 Minutes To Explain feat. Funkerman, Andy & Dorothy Sherman
10. Rockin High feat. Mitch Crown
11. Noise Reduction
12. OUPUT
Bonus Tracks
13. New Life – Fedde le Grand vs Dany P-Jazz
14. Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
15. The Creeps
16. Let Me Think About It